Say Bye-bye to Your Lycos Email Account

After several years of providing high quality email services to its users, Lycos is finally putting an end to its Lycos Mail operations. The Lycos Team forwarded the bad news to its loyal subscribers by sending copies of the company’s official statement to their individual email addresses.

Not saving important documents

Until the cut-off date, all Lycos Mail users may still log-on to their email accounts. They may still send messages, receive emails, organize files, store documents, and manage contacts using their Lycos Mail accounts. However, the company advises all existing Lycos Mail users to start cleaning up their inboxes by backing up their important files. According to the Lycos Team, the company will close all Lycos Mail accounts on the cut-off date. The contents of all Lycos Mail accounts, therefore, will be deleted as soon as the email accounts are closed.

Not forgetting paid accounts

Like most email service providers, Lycos Mail also offers additional paid options. If you are a paid subscriber of Lycos Mail, then you should not worry about your remaining balance because the Lycos Team promises to reimburse all remaining balances. All reimbursements will be sent to the bank account that you specified during your application.

Not attracting enough users

According to the official statement issued by the Lycos Team via email, the company has decided to discontinue its Lycos Mail operations because it’s no longer profitable. In recent years, Lycos Mail suffered heavy competition against more popularly known webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

I AM SO PISSED! I am in the in the U.S. and I never got an email. I Tried to log in my accounts (2) today and they both re-route me to a damn upgrade page. $20 a year to keep access. I am going to be forced to keep the damn accounts open. I have had them for 8 years. They are on my professional and entertainment resumes. I just wish that I had received notice. Just think of all the websites we use our email accounts on. I have to go back and change them all. This is crazy. I am sooooo upset.

I did not receive a notice either or I certainly would have gotten my email addresses off there for my family research!!! I’m furious! I hope they reconsider and open our accounts to us for awhile, seeing many were not notified.

Jul 6th 2010, couldn’t log-in, the page just says sign-up and pay per year or “contact support” and the “help/support” page won’t come up, tried many times, was down all day long, they are playing around with the email system. The company hides behind some sort of a skimpy support page. Their “help” page always says “last article update: 2007″ I really recommend don’t use their service and back-up ALL your emails ASAP. They are a bunch of anti-customer morons running that company and THEY are the ones driving it into the ground.

1-866-971-5039 they hang up on you if you’re not a “paid” “customer”. Even if their “support/help” page is down and you can’t get to it, they hang up on you. Completely asinine.

Quote: “the company has decided to discontinue its Lycos Mail operations because it’s no longer profitable.”

More like it’s not “profitable” because it’s run by morons who are arrogant, anti-customer, and who won’t listen to input from anyone. It was discontinued in the UK, U.S. is next. Beware.

I can’t believe they can just shut you down. I did not get any notice prior to loosing all of my e-mail accounts! I think they should give us the chance to clear up our in box and move on to another server.